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46 I burn to view th' enthusiastic wilds By coital else untrod.I hear the din Of waters thundering o'er the ruin'd cliffs. With holy rev'rence I approach the rocks Whence glide the streams renown'd in ancient song. Here from the desart down the rumbling steep First springs the Nile; here bursts the sounding Po In angry waves; Euphrates hence devolves A mighty flood to water half the East; And there, in Gothic solitude reclin'd, The chearless Tanais pours his hoary urn. What solemn twilight! What stupendous shades Enwarp these infant floods! Thro' every nerve A sacred horror thrills, a pleasing fear Glides o'er my frame. The forest deepens round; And more gigantic still th' impending trees Rh